Brian Eno Quotes
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Well, there are some things that I just can't get out of my head, and they start to annoy me after a while. Sometimes they're of my own creation, as well - and they're just as annoying. It's not only other people's ear worms that bug me, it's my own, as well.
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I think one of my pursuits over the years is trying to answer the question of, 'What else can you do with a voice other than stand in front of a microphone and sing?'
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For the world to be interesting, you have to be manipulating it all the time.
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I wish there was a serious investigation into flying saucers that wasn't conducted by crackpots. Unfortunately nearly all of the people who are interested in them kind of manufacture the evidence to fit the theories rather than the other way around. So it's very hard to find any dispassionate treatment of them. Maybe there isn't any scientific basis in which case that's why you never see any scientific evidence.
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Any constraint is part of the skeleton that you build the composition on - including your own incompetence.
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As struggles go, being an artist isn't that much of one.
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My lyrics are generated by various peculiar processes. Very random and similar to automatic writing.
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When I went back to England after a year away, the country seemed stuck, dozing in a fairy tale, stifled by the weight of tradition.
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One of the things you do when you make a piece of art is you try to make the world you'd rather be in.
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Perhaps when music has been shouting for so long, a quieter voice seems attractive.
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I'm always interested in what you can do with technology that people haven't thought of doing yet.
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If you grow up in a very strong religion like Catholicism you certainly cultivate in yourself a certain taste for the intensity of ideas.
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I've discovered this new electronic technique that creates new speech out of stuff that's already there.
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I don't want to do free jazz! Because free jazz - which is the musical equivalent of free marketeering - isn't actually free at all. It's just constrained by what your muscles can do.
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With recording, everything changed. The prospect of music being detachable from time and place meant that one could start to think of music as a part of one's furniture. It's an idea that many composers have felt reluctant about because it seemed to them to diminish the importance of music.
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When our governments want to sell us a course of action, they do it by making sure it's the only thing on the agenda, the only thing everyone's talking about. And they pre-load the ensuing discussion with highly selected images, devious and prejudicial language, dubious linkages, weak or false 'intelligence' and selected 'leaks.'
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The point about melody and beat and lyric is that they exist to engage you in a very particular way. They want to occupy your attention.
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I want to rethink 'surrender' as an active verb.
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I've noticed a terrible thing, which is I will agree to anything if it's far enough in the future.
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Since I have always preferred making plans to executing them, I have gravitated towards situations and systems that, once set into operation, could create music with little or no intervention on my part. That is to say, I tend towards the roles of planner and programmer, and then become an audience to the results.
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I suppose I am reluctant about being any sort of 'star' and I didn't particularly want to be portrayed as one.
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I want to make something that is breathtaking. Of course, you can't make something that is always breathtaking, or you would never be able to breathe. You would collapse.
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You know that in order to copyright material somebody has to write it down for you. Any piece of recorded material has to be scored in order for it to be copyrighted. I've seen the scores of my things and they don't resemble the music in any way. If you give them to somebody who has never heard the music and say, "What does this sound like to you?" they'll play you something that has no relationship with the music it derives from. Notation simply isn't adequate.
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I think we're about ready for a new feeling to enter music. I think that will come from the Arabic world.